Medea - Review

Medea was a play, adapted from the Greek story of the woman whos husband leaves for someone else. As a result she extracts a terrible revenge on her husband and his new woman by murdering their own children. This was an extremely controversial theme and still is as society deems the bond between a mother and child as unbreakable, more so than a father and child or a husband and wife.
This adaptation took many themes of the original tale while adding a modern twist. The main character was a writer turned bitter by her husband who cheated on her. Their split was causing the children to grieve with the youngest hating the mother and the oldest despising the father. As a result her ultimate revenge was to have a script she had written for her husband made into a play in which he would star unwillingly knowing the story was about him. The children were then sent to live with their father but their grief was too much and they ended up feeding each other painkillers, their fate left a mystery at the end..

There were many aspects of this i found very compelling. For example the group of mothers dancing during the performance. This was very good because they where in sync and with the use of lighting, projection and sound it made a very powerful visual image for the viewers.